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Kayak Fishing

I've fit a few shorter floats into a busy schedule lately on the local flows. It's hard not to when you know the fish are chewing hard right now. We have been catching them on all kinds of lures, but most impressively they have started to take topwater with reckless abandon!! Caught about 15 smallies on topwater since Sunday, mostly on the Whopper Plopper in "Monkey Butt" color including two fish over 2lb.

I've fished the French Broad River twice this week, Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon. Overall, it's been somewhat a tough bite with the water still stained and running good. (Might be other reasons for tough fishing, spawning? fronts? fishing pressure? river traffic? not sure really...) We have managed to put 6 smallies in the boat and one nice rainbow. On Tuesday the river was almost muddy colored, so i switched

Well my kayak wars team has had an excellent March. Problem this weekend is we've maxed spotted bass, crappie, chain pickerel, sunfish, and largemouth bass for the month. I had the option of shooting for some more blue cats or trying something different. I opted for different. I decided to head to Lake James in search of Smallmouth Bass. I figured with me now being navionics equipped I could troll the lake a lot more

went to beaver creek area tuesday in search of crappie, fished bout 2 hrs and nothing,so i started towards the rocks and started throwing a square bill crank, second cast bam 2.2lber no skunk today,kept fishing and caught 4-5 dinks, next cast line screamed and towards middle it went, way it was pulling thought carp, fought it a while never seeing what it was, finally tired and surfaces beside kayak OMG what a bass.

Floated the French Broad river on Saturday, spent most of the morning looking for a musky, withou a take. Did catch the first pig smallie of the day on a 6in. RiverSea S wave rainbow trout swimbait. Switched to fishing for smallies around 1ish and picked up another three quality fish by the time we got off the river. The fish were holding in heavy runs and taking a finesse craw bait on a jig head.